I really like the bendy train in the artistic rendering. What materials would allow for railroad car chassis and bodies which could bend and torque with the curve of the track like rubber? I think you would need lots of wheels or a relatively pointless flex-inducing system on each car to even get it to bend in this fashion.
Perhaps it just made for a pretty picture, and a completely impractical reality :)
"Seems to completely work around the reasons why Bitcoin etc. were interesting in the first place as a technology."
I respectfully disagree. The original goal of Bitcoin was to create a new financial system and instrument which ultimately enables people to pay for things.
Agreed, the sort interface in go is one of the worst parts, and doesn't translate to any other language I'm familiar with. The article was mildly entertaining but by the end left much to be desired.
Shoulda just gone with python, rust, c, crystal lang.. anything else for sorting!
Any time it is at a pleasurable level, there is some amount of damage occurring. This isn't news.
Sometimes being human is such a bummer! I'd rather be deaf and have had happy ears when I was young than grow old and never "used" them, though. YMMV, a lot.
I've been piloting this program and I've got to say it's been a convenient way to pay without draining my real bank account. IMO this is a killer product compared to everything else I've experienced with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency this far, it really bridges the gap.
Heck, I even used it to pay my back taxes to the IRS.
This is flat out not true. FB doesn't employ 10s of thousands of human moderators.
According to a 3-month old article, $FB supposedly employs 7,500 moderators [0], though it's unclear what constitutes "employment" in this case. Probably a salary of less than $5k/yr. Are there really thouhsands of content moderators pulling up to FBHQ in Menlo Park 5 days a week? I don't think so, no.
The creator, Solomon Hykes, rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with his arrogance and narcissism, not to mention poor netiquette.
Docker is also a huge layer cake of code, not elegant or beautiful by any stretch. At this point there is enough lipstick on the pig that it more or less works okay in general, though frequently still remains the source of many a headache.
Perhaps it just made for a pretty picture, and a completely impractical reality :)
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